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Inspirational meeting international cooperation on sustainable food production
Op 31 augustus organiseert het interdepartementale programma (VROM, LNV en OS) een inspiratiebijeenkomst rondom ontwikkelingssamenwerking in de landbouwsector.
Agri-ProFocus News March 2010 now online!
In this latest Agri-ProFocus newsletter you can gain insights into the exchange and learning activities of Agri-ProFocus, read more about how local coalitions in Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia have started to work together to promote farmer entrepreneurship, and learn more about our network.
Prize winners of the Ethiopia Learning Alliance awarded
On the 17th of February, all 18 clusters (on teff, honey, wheat, maize, gum etc.) that participated in the APF Ethiopia Learning Alliance (APELA) presented their business plans. In a joyful award ceremony the leaders of farmers’ organisations that won the business contest were awarded. Piet Visser, local APELA coordinator from SNV Ethiopia, commented: ‘The final workshop was good in the sense that actual stories of changes within the clusters have been documented. SNV will use these cases as learning inputs for the Productive Safety Net Programme Plus, in which several organisations are providing evidence for graduating producers out of the safety net system with asset building and linking to markets’.
Organic producers from Africa exhibit their products at BIOFACH 2010
The Organic Africa Pavilion offers a marketplace for organic producers from Africa to present themselves and their products at the BIOFACH 2010 on 19-22 February in Nuremberg. The Organic Africa Pavilion is organised by APF member AgroEco Louis Bolk Institute and supported by HIVOS and Cordaid.
Farmer entrepreneurs needed to change sector
Under this title the Daily Monitor published an article about how Agri-ProFocus members are now joining hands to stimulate the enhancement of farmer entrepreneurship in Uganda.
Agri-ProFocus' response to the WRR report
'Of het nu gaat om multilaterale, bilaterale hulp of hulp via NGO’s en bedrijfsleven: de versnippering in OS viert hoogtij. Dat lijkt ook de rode draad van het WRR rapport. Kluitjesvoetbal (Koch 2009) is daarbij een leuke, maar mijns inziens onjuiste metafoor; waren we maar met zijn allen gericht op één bal. In de praktijk neemt iedere spelersgroep zijn eigen bal mee het veld in, en speelt daar zijn of haar eigen spel.'
Book offer for APF members: Value Chain Finance
'Value chain finance: Beyond microfinance for rural entrepeneurs' will be published in March 2010 by the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) and the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR). KIT Publishers offers members of Agri-Profocus the opportunity to pre-order all volumes in the book series on value chains with a considerable discount.
Trainings in Value Chain Development
HPC, in cooperation with MDF and TriodosFacet, organises three interesting courses in the Netherlands on value chain analysis, January 2010: Value chain concepts (11-15 Jan), value chain facilitation (20-22 Jan) and value chain finance (25-27 Jan).
Agri-ProFocus News December 2009 now online!
In this latest Agri-ProFocus newsletter you can gain insights into the exchange and learning activities of Agri-ProFocus, read more about how local coalitions in Niger and Uganda has started to work together to promote farmer entrepreneurship, and learn more about our plans for 2010.
An aspiring 2010!
Hedwig Bruggeman, director of Agri-ProFocus, reflects on the activities of the past year and presents Agri-ProFocus' ambitions for 2010 in her New Year's statement.
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